(October 7, 2013) Update: Israeli spymaster and Mossad chief David Kimche is a first cousin with Greg Palast's father. So, what does that make Greg Palast? An honest reporter?

The fact that Greg Palast has hidden his family ties to Israeli intelligence suggests that he is working for them. Why else would he hide this relevant relationship. It certainly does not look good for Greg Palast. Don't Palast readers deserve to know about his ties to the Mossad?

Greg: You should write a tell-all book with a title like My Life as a Disinfo Agent for the Mossad. Hey, it would sell big -- but you might have to move to Israel.

GREG PALAST markets himself as an "investigative journalist" but he always misses the Israeli elephant in the room. Could it be because his father's cousin was David Kimche, a "founding father" of Israel's intelligence agency - the Mossad?

Greg's father Gilbert is a first cousin of David Kimche (right), a founding father of the Mossad who was deeply involved in Iran-Contra and other Israeli state crimes until he died in March 2010.